A Quote by Robert Benchley

I do most of my work sitting down; that's where I shine.

Robert Benchley

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Robert Benchley
American - Comedian
September 15, 1889 - November 21, 1945

The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying.

Steven Pressfield

People ask how hard it can be sitting down for work during a 500-mile race? Well, without power steering or power brakes, holding onto 650 horses in a car that has nearly 3,000 pounds of downforce and can produce up to 4Gs vertically and laterally can be extremely tough - even sitting down.

Charlie Kimball

You learn the most from sitting down and doing the work, regularly, patiently, sometimes in hope, sometimes despairingly.

Naomi Alderman

Me sitting down for dinner with Ingmar Bergman felt like a house painter sitting down with Picasso.

Woody Allen

In the black community when we think of a couselor or sitting down with a therapist there is that taboo attached to people of being psychotic and crazy. Really it's not it's just sitting down having a conversation.

Gabrielle Dennis

According to Beckett's or Kafka's law, there is immobility beyond movement: beyond standing up, there is sitting down, and beyond sitting down, lying down, beyond which one finally dissipates.

Gilles Deleuze

There are times in life to grow, and there are times in life to shine. One can't grow and shine at the same time; it just doesn't work that way. Now you're growing. Tomorrow you'll shine.

Carol Plum-Ucci

I just want to give you this one piece of advice: if you're standing and you could be sitting, sit. If you're sitting and you could be lying down, lie down.

Helena Bonham Carter

In general, fakirs, like scribes and potters, are sitting down, when he's standing up, a fakir is just like an other man, and sitting down, he'll be smaller than the others.

Jose Saramago

There are definitely times when the outside eye can shine a light on something you weren't aware of. They're usually exposing a flaw or a problem. Sometimes they're saying, "Hey, this doesn't really work. Have you seen this?" And then, you go, "Oh, I didn't really see that. You're right, that doesn't work." If they're good, they shine a light on issues that you're blind to because you're too close to it.

Ronald D. Moore

Imitate the sun. Don't worry if people understand you. Just shine shine shine.

Ben Lee

People think that they will sit down and produce the great American novel in one sitting. It doesn't work that way. This is a very patient and meticulous work, and you have to do it with joy and love for the process, not for the outcome.

Isabel Allende

The most important hour is always the present. The most significant person is precisely the one sitting across from you right now. The most necessary work is always love.

Meister Eckhart

I love sitting through long things. I mean, 'Gone With the Wind' I will sit through; I love sitting somewhere for four hours, for anything. I love being on a train. I love sitting down for four hours. I think it's the most wonderful thing to be able to sit somewhere and concentrate on something for more than two hours.

Andre Leon Talley

People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

Prowling about the rooms, sitting down, getting up, stirring the fire, looking out the window, teasing my hair, sitting down to write, writing nothing, writing something and tearing it up...

Charles Dickens

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